The Law concerning Criminal Laws

The law concerning

Criminal Laws

 

267.                  Not to slay an innocent person (Ex. 20:13 You shall not kill.) (This command teaches us that someone who truly believes in El YAHWEH as the Creator and sustainer of human life will not commit murder. Murder is taking of one life outside of the reason given by Torah. Murder is not only limited to slaying a person Physically, a person can be slaying spiritually also. When an act against a fellow human causes severe emotional Trauma, the type that may cause a person to kill themselves, or causing any one to grow spiritually is also tantamount to murder. A person, who sells drugs to another person who later overdoses, is liable for murder).

 

278.                 Not to kidnap any person of Yisrael (Ex. 20:13 you shall not steal) (according to the Talmud, this verse refers to stealing a person, distinguished from Lev. 19:11, regarding the taking of property). (This command teaches us that in the redeemed community this thought would never enter their mind. The point is that sensible, logical people long to acquire only things that are within their frame of reference, but not things that are beyond the scope of their imagination. Similarly, if someone had complete faith in El YAHWEH, he would recognize that property that YAHWEH wanted our neighbor to have is as inaccessible to us as the queen to a poor peasant. This commandment can legislate against such acts as steeling, but only El YAHWEH can demand that people sanctify their thoughts and attitude to the point where they purge themselves of such natural tendencies. What the law does is to exposed these tendencies to us, if we did not have the law, we would not know what is repugnant to El YAHWEH).

 

279.                 Not to rob by violence (Lev. 19:13 You shall not cheat your fellow and you shall not rob). (This command teaches us that you shall not cheat, by depriving a worker of his earning, or by deceitfully or forcibly withholding anything belonging to another person, such as an article that was left for safekeeping.   If we rob by for, we are liable to use force if someone resist. In the redeem community we are called to love our neighbor.)

 

280.                 Not to defraud (Lev. 19:13 you shall not cheat your fellow and you shall not rob); This command teaches us that shall not cheat, by depriving a worker of his earning, or by deceitfully or forcibly withholding anything belonging to another person, such as an article that was left for safekeeping.)

 

281.                 Not to covet what belongs to another (Ex. 20:14 You should not covet your fellow’s house). (This command teaches us that to covet is to require what is unlawful by Torah to have. It is not unlawful to desire an house. It is unlawful to desire your neighbor house, since house and land were not regularly sole in Yisrael).

 

282.                 Not to crave anything that belongs to another (Deut. 5:18 you shall not covet). (This command teaches us that the to desire what is not ours is a part of human nature. The prohibition against to covet forbids one to take action, such as seeking to coax or pressure the owner of the house to sell it. By extension the prohibition to desire, the Torah teaches us that it is wrong even to fantasize a plot against another person, even though one know he will not be able to carry it out. As Yahushua says murder start in the mind. Every evil a person does starts with our mind. Those who are led by the Spirit pot ray the fruit of the Spirit, those whose thinking is led by the flesh, produces the fruit of the flesh).

 

283.                 Not to indulge in evil thoughts and sights (Num. 15:39 not to explore after your heart and after your heart after which you stray). (This command teaches us that the heart and eyes are like the body’s spies, brokering for it the sins sought by its animal nature. The heart or mind covets and the eyes desire leading the body into sin. The redeemed community strive to control these nature by the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, Spirit of Counsel and might, the Spirit of Knowledge and the Fear of El YAHWEH. We develop these attribute when we enjoined to avoid any thought that could entice us to uproot a fundamental of the Torah. Human intelligence is limited and not everyone can ascertain the Truth, so that a person can destroy his world if he follows his random thoughts. For example, if a person ruminates on whether or not there is a God, whether the prophecies are true, or whether the Torah is the constitution of the Heavenly Kingdom. If he does not have the Holy Spirit to illuminate his discernment, he will be opening himself to heretical beliefs. That is why the Torah commands that a redeemed person should not explore after the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.)